Here ya go. Enjoy.
"Yeee haaaw!" Xanna exclaimed as she and her trolled friend flew down the rest of the hallway. They both landed with a loud splat when meeting another wall. "Woo! That was fun!" She chuckled, sliding down the wall with Gishezpak. "Let's do it again!"
"Miss Xanna?…" The troll said, tapping on the girl's shoulder, then pointing at the direction they had just flew from.
Xanna looked, seeing the mob of animals emerge from the cloud of smoke. "Dammit… Missed." She muttered irritably to herself. Something then caught her attention from out of the corner of her eye. She looked to see it was the turtle."Snap snap!" Snapped the turtle, glaring daggers at the elf girl.
"Oh, is that how it's go'n' be?" The short girl replied, hopping to her feet and throwing some air punches.
The turtle then pulled out a knife. And then cocked it.
Gishezpak's eyes widened in shock.
"Oh, yeah! !" Xanna replied to the turtle's threat. She then pulled out an empty beer bottle from nowhere, turned around and smashed it on the wall. The next thing the turtle knew was that she was ominously turning back around dressed a full body black leather suit, wearing some sort of strange helmet that made small crackle sounds as she breathed, and that some sort of saber made of light grew out of the broken beer bottle. "Bring it, bitch." She said in a deep and dark voice as she got into a battle stance. What's more, there was some sort of strange music playing in the background. A kind of music that felt like it would be played amongst a war in the stars.
Sadly, the turtle had done the exact same thing.
"…Oh, dammit! We dressed in the same outfit!" Xanna said in her normal voice, standing up straight to cross her arms over her chest and stick out her hip. "One of us is gonna have to change."
"Snap snap, bitch." The turtle replied, standing up as Xanna did. The girl sighed and turned around to point to her back. "Unzip me." She said.
"Miss Xanna…I believe it is best that we start running again before Master Elros catches up to us." Gishezpak said, staring blankly in his left direction as the turtle helped Xanna get out of her Space Fights getup. "Hmm…" Xanna pondered his suggestion for a moment, kicking the turtle back to the other animals after being undressed. "Good point…" She agreed, putting the beer saber of light somewhere on her person. "But we'll need a plan!" She said, beginning to contemplate on what to do. "If we could just hypnotize one of those monkeys into being a gun, I think we might be able to buy some time…"
"Um… Why don't we-?"
"Or dance! That's worked before! But where am I gonna get assless chaps at a time like this?"
"W-We could j-Assless chaps?…"
"Stripping? Making a bomb?"
"M-… Miss Xanna?…"
"Use Great Father Winter's anus baby?"
Gishezpak stared blankly at his friend, now rethinking about his feelings toward her. 'Perhaps it was a "booty call"…' He thought to himself. He then shook his head and tapped on her shoulder once more. "Miss Xanna, we could just run down the hallway until we lose them." He said.
Xanna turned to her friend, staring at him for a moment. She then addressed her eyes back to the notes of things they could do to escape in her hand. "Hmm… I dunno… I'm kinda diggin' plan number three hundred fifty-eight…" She said, reading the "cut your losses and ditch the troll" plan.
"Hmm… Snap snap." The snapping turtle; that was now right next to Xanna; said, pointing to another idea down the list. "Oh, yeah, I almost forgot about that one." She replied to it, smiling and shaking its foot. "Thanks."
With an irritated sigh, Gishezpak pulled something from his pocket and through it to the other side of the corridor. "Fetch!" He yelled to all of the animals as they were slowly coming back to their senses.
"Hey! Great idea, Gizzy! I had something similar written down, but it involved a chainsaw and some glue and Nuck Chorris."
"That sounds like a very interesting plan, Miss Xanna. Tell me more about it after we run for our lives." The troll said, grabbing Xanna's hand to make a getaway. "Wait!" She said, pulling away. "What is it?" Gishezpak replied, biting back his irritation.
"I have another idea!" Xanna said, digging into her pockets again, pulling out some more knickknacks. "A toothpick and some lint… Yes! ! I am a GENIE!"
"Genius…"
"Penguin!"
"Wha-… What?"
Quickly, Xanna the penguin girl turned around, fiddled with the knickknacks, and turned back around to reveal she had made two target dummies. "I'm gonna need you to take off your clothes for this to work…" She said.
"Wh-?" Gishezpak queried, stumbling to the ground as Xanna began to forcibly undress him once again. 'Why is it that I can never enjoy being half naked?…' The troll thought to himself, quickly turning a bright red when Xanna began to strip herself of her clothing. '…Okay… I think I can semi-enjoy myself now…'
"There." Xanna said, smiling proudly at the dummies she'd made. "They look just like us!" She beamed.
After placing the clothing on them, she used a magic marker to draw smiley faces; and tusks for the Gishezpak dummy; on them.
"This should distract them after they're done mauling whatever the hell it was that you thre-"
"Great plan! Let's go! !" Gishezpak quickly, grabbing the girl's hand and making a run for it. For the second time ever since she had discovered the lovely thing known as friends, a boy was running away with her so fast that her feet were not even touching the ground.
"Quickly, Miss Xanna, grab your things and let's go!" Gishezpak told Xanna after bursting into her bedroom.
"Good idea, Gizzy! Now we don't have to be naked!" The elf girl replied, walking up to one of her bags to pull out some spare clothes. She did just fine putting her pants on my herself, but she needed a little help with her shirt because she kept buttoning it wrong. "Dammit…"
Holding back some more of his frustration, Gishezpak walked over to her, undid her buttons, then quickly re-buttoned her shirt correctly from the bottom, slowly coming to a stop as he made it toward the top. Another blush grew across his face as he realized exactly what he had been doing. Further more, he'd stopped his hands right on top of her breasts.
"Thanks, Giz. I can take it from here." Xanna replied with a smile, removing his hands to button the rest of her shirt herself. Once done, she turned around to bend over and dig into her bag again.
'You're killing me here, Miss Xanna…' Gishezpak thought, trying not to get too distracted by the new view of his female companion.
"Here some clothes for you too." Xanna said, standing up and turning back around to her troll friend. "Made 'em myself." She said, handing him the exact look-alikes of his clothing.
Gishezpak quirked an eyebrow at the clothing, slowly taking them into his arms. 'When did she find the time to make these?…' He thought. He quickly shook it off and dressed himself. "Let's go now." He told Xanna.
"But where are we gonna go?" Xanna asked, finally thinking about the building they were currently trapped in. "Like you said, we can't just walk out the front door. If he's not chasing us, Elros is sure to be waiting there and we can't take him. Even if I pulled everything out of my bags!" She stated, slightly throwing her arms into the air. "And I have not seen one freakin' window in this place! Which is weird! I mean, I don't like windows that much in the first place, but no windows at all is just as bad! It makes me feel houseaphobic! And that's saying a lot considering how small I am and how big this place is!"
"I believe you mean claustrophobic…"
"But I'm only slightly afraid of Great Father Winter…"
"Wh-… Nevermind. Let's go." The troll said, grabbing the girl's hand once again. "I know something we can use to get out of here."
"And what would that be-eeeee!" Xanna extended the last bit of her question as she was once again pulled off of the ground by her friend. 'Okay, this is more fun when you are the puller, not the pull-ey…'
"Gizzy, where-" Xanna was asking, finally landing on the ground as her friend turned around a corner and came to a stop. "Why-?" She tried to ask, getting her mouth covered by the troll's hand. He turned to her, a finger placed over his lips.
Just as Xanna was about to blink her question in Morse code, her ear begin to twitch at the sounds of wolves. 'Shit, they're getting clo-' She was thinking, something catching the attention of her nose. 'What is this glorious smell of the angels?…' She thought, half closing her eyes as she slowly inhaled it more. Then; without her friend noticing at all; she wandered off to find the fragrance.
A moment after she had disappeared, Gishezpak sighed in relief. "They're gone." He said, turning. "Let's g-… Miss Xanna?" He asked the air. 'Dammit! !'
"Miss Xanna? Miss Xanna!" Gishezpak whispered as he snuck through the hallways. "Where are-?" He asked when he was roughly yanked by the collar of his robe into a room just to his right. The troll was startled at first, then calmed when he realized he had found the person he was looking for.
"Gizzy, you have got to smell this perfume!" Xanna said, deeply inhaling from the fragrance once again. "It's just, like,-! Ohhh myyy goood! ! I think I'm getting high off it!" She said, her ears twitching with glee as just inhaled the perfume some more. "Oh yeah…" She exhaled, her eyes going slightly crossed. "Man, what is this stuff and can I smoke it? !"
"I believe Master Elros said that it was made of a new kind of flower known as the…" Gishezpak trailed off as he tried to recall the name of the flower. "The…Frost Lotus. Yes, that's it." He said, nodding in approval to his correct answer. "He found them and made them into an intoxicating perfume."
"Hmm… Never heard of that kind of flo-Elros can pick herbs and make perfumes?…" Xanna asked, catching onto exactly what her friend had said.
Gishezpak replied with a nod. "Yes… Yes he can."
"That's…weird…"
"How so?"
"Well… I-It's just hard to imagine someone as crazy and serious and scary as him…can…collect herbs and…make perfumes…"
"You make a clever point."
"Exactly." Xanna said, putting the perfume bottle into one of her bags. She then turned to see the troll's expression from the action. "What? Don't judge me!"
"You just stole that…"
"Oh, like he needs it?"
"True. But that is still stealing." Gishezpak said, completely ignoring the fact that he'd stolen many things as well.
"I'm a rogue! What'd ya expect!" The girl replied, throwing her arms into the air as she grew flustered. Her friend shrugged in reply. "This is true. It is a proven fact that all rogues are kleptomaniacs."
"I am not a klepto! !" Xanna replied, humorously frustrated at the mention of the word. "I just simply like…barrowing…things that don't belong to me! Especially if they're shiny! There is nothing wrong with that!"
"Says the girl that just stole a bottle of perfume…" Gishezpak replied, not being able to help the smirk that grew across his face.
"…Oh, screw you!" Xanna replied, aiming her frustration to whatever was to her right. "It's alright, Miss Xanna." Gishezpak chuckled, walking closer to the girl. "Now let's-"
"XANNA!"
At the sound of Elros' voice, both of the teens froze in shock for a moment. "Shit! What do we do now!" Xanna quietly asked her friend, impulsively grabbing one of his hands for comfort.
"Get under the bed!"
"Gizzy, I don't think this is quite the time to cuddle…"
"What? No! Get under the bed and don't make a sound." The troll said, lightly shoving Xanna to hide under the bed in the room. "Ah, alright! No need to get so pushy…" She said, crawling under the bed, then making room to share with her friend.
Once both of the teens were under the bed, Gishezpak placed his finger over his lips as he had done earlier.
'Okay! Don't make a sound!' Xanna thought, mentally pretending to zip her lips. 'Got it, buddy!' She thought, her grin quickly turning into puzzlement. 'Wait, does thinking count as a sound? Oh, crap! What about breathing? ! I'm breathing so loud right now, aren't I? ! Stop! Stop breathing! Be quiet! And you be quiet heart! Don't you make me come down there…' She thought, pointing to a heart with legs in her mind as she held her breath.
Of course, this was a very bad idea. She began to change colors.
'Me…can't feel…head place… Dizzy… Want…nigh' nigh'…' Xanna thought, becoming lightheaded. 'Me foots are cold!' She half thought with frustration, feeling a small breeze are her feet. As carefully as she could, she adjusted herself to see what was causing the chill.
There was nothing. Just a wall.
'But if there's no vent…-' Xanna thought; in her version of the word; normally again as she began to breathe once more. '-why are my feet cold?' She finished the thought, looking back to the wall. Her curiosity then; as it always did; got the better of her and she adjusted herself to have her face by the wall. She placed her hand up to it, confirming that there indeed was air coming from it. 'Holy crap…' She thought, putting her hand back down. 'There's a passageway here!'
Xanna lightly nudged her troll friend with her foot, urging him to place his face by the wall as she had done. Albeit reluctant, the blue teen obliged. Once done, Xanna placed her hand next to the wall again and motioned for him to do so as well. His eyes slightly widened in shock when he felt air coming from it.
Smiling happily at their discovery, Xanna quietly pulled out a dagger. If he'd been a position to do so, Gishezpak would have yelled for her to stop. Sadly, all he could do was grab her by the wrist; only to get shrugged off.
After a moment, Xanna had pulled off the piece of wall covering the passageway, smiling victoriously at it. She then turned her smile to her troll friend, wordlessly telling him that everything was going to be alright and nothing could possibly go wrong. And she was right.
Until she put away her dagger and broke the bottle of perfume she "barrowed".
'Oh shit…' Both teens thought.
Not even a second later, they heard footsteps and growls heading their way.
"Go, go!" Gishezpak urged Xanna to crawl into the tunnel first. "I'll be right behind you! Go!" He said, starting to lightly shove her again.
After making sure she was completely in the narrow tunnel, Gishezpak took a moment for himself, getting the courage to be completely selfless for his friend. Once mustering up what he could, he stuck his hand into the tunnel and dug at the top of it, making some of the dirt fall and close up tunnel, then placed the piece of wall back onto it. 'Be safe…my love…'
"XANNA! !"
'Goodbye.'
'What the hell was that?' Xanna thought, feeling a chill go up her spine. She took a moment to be frozen in slight fear and confusion, slowly making little jabs behind herself with her foot. "Gizzy?… Are you there?…" She squeaked, slowly getting teary eyed when no answer came. "Oh god… Gishezpak…no…" She said to herself, laying her face onto her arms as she realized what her friend had done. "Why? Why would you do that?" She cried softly to herself.
Xanna could that horrible pain again. That one pain that always came when she cried. Her stomach twisted and turned, sobs would painfully get caught in her throat, her body began to shake vigorously, and her heart felt as if it would give out at any moment.
"Gishezpak…" She sobbed as she forced herself to crawl the narrow tunnel once more. Her tears blinded her the whole way, but she never stopped crawling. She had to keep going, for her friend.
By the time she had reached the end, most of her tears had dried on her cheeks. She sniffled a bit as she crawled out, stood up straight and halfheartedly dusted herself off. "Thank you, Gishezpak…" She barely whispered to the wind lightly blowing around her. "I promise that your sacrifice won't be in vain… I promise…I'll come back for you…" She said, lowering her head. "Just wait for me."
Xanna had quietly been stealthing through the dark forest she was in, hopelessly lost. 'As Ixxy would say…"Yep, he's gonna die in vain."…' She thought, almost missing her twin making such snide remarks in her mind. If she wasn't so busy fighting in Stormwind, Ixxy would be making comments.
With a sigh and shake of the head, Xanna continued to stalk across the wilderness, holding back a shudder or two everytime she saw a spider cocoon or heard a skitter.
'I hope I don't bump into that big one again…' The girl thought, fighting back the urge to vomit as she remembered how she had bumped into the ferocious beast. 'Jesus, that thing was big. Like, huge big. And this must be an even bigger forest if it's living here in peace!' Xanna shook her head in disgust, trying to get rid of the image in her mind. 'Just focus on getting outa here.' She mentally told herself as she continued to walk.
After a few moments of silence; yes, she wasn't even thinking; Xanna's ear began to twitch uncontrollably. She shrugged it off, thinking it was some spiders talking each other into going on a date or something of that sort and continued on with her own business.
"Uhn!" Groaned a man as Xanna began to mourn about the intoxicating perfume she had lost. She looked down with an interested face, shrugging when she saw that it was Binkadoo and walking off again.
'Wait a minute…'
Xanna quickly backed up; stepping on the troll again; and stared with huge eyes; which hid her whole face and looked as if they would pop out completely; at Gishezpak's father. "Mister Gizzy's dad? !" She exclaimed in a whisper. "Wha-What the hell are you doing out here? !"
"Uhn…" Binkadoo managed to whimper, trying to address that Xanna had been standing on his hand. "Oh, sorry." She said, taking a step back. "What the hell are you doing here? ! What the hell happened to you? ! Where's your wife and other two troll babies? !" Xanna exclaimed, kneeling down next to the fatally injured troll.
"Afta…Gizzay told us de news of our freedom…" Binkadoo found the strength to speak, but kept his eyes closed from the pain he was still in, only opening them every now and then to let the elf girl know he was alive. "Weh ran…as fast as we cood…" He choked out, letting out a small groan. "Weh t'ought we wer safe wen none o' de goowels attacked us…" He said, his breathing starting to hasten and shorten.
Without hesitation, Xanna inhaled deeply and breathed it into the troll, helping him to stay in the world for just a moment longer.
Binkadoo blinked to the elf girl, slowly opening his mouth to thank her. She held up a hand for him not to waste his newly given breath. With a smile of approval and gratitude, Binkadoo went on. "Weh made eet prettay deep inta da woods, as ya cun see." He told Xanna; receiving a nod. "Bu' soon, mah wife an' Ah noticed dah spidas bahgan at eye us. Weh bot' knew dat dat mant Masta Elrahs 'ad snapped 'is fingas…" He said, closing his eyes just before Xanna's had widened in shock.
'Snapped his fingers?…' She thought, finally putting that piece of the puzzle into the picture.
"Dey swarmed us." Binkadoo said. "Ah told mah wife at take da keeds an' run as fast as dey cood while Ah 'eld 'em off." He said, letting out another small groan. "P-… Please…if ya see mah family…help dem get ta safety…" He said, then looked up to Xanna with tears in his eyes. "An', please,…don' leave mah son in dere… Don't leave 'im wit' Elrahs…please… Everyt'ing he 'as done an' will eva do will be in vain…" He said, his eyes starting to close. "Don' let 'im die dere as Ah 'ave 'ere…" He pleaded, closing his eyes completely.
Xanna fought back her tears and held the dead troll's icy cold hand. "I promise… I won't abandon him." She whispered, wiping her eyes as she stood up. She inhaled deeply as she looked away from the troll. "I'll be back for you too." She said, then ran off to find the other three.
'They've got to around here somewhere…' Xanna thought, following the barely noticeable foot tracks of the missing trolls. Soon, they disappeared. 'Shit!' She thought with great frustration. 'How the hell am I suppose to find them n-? !' She yelled in her mind, noticing that some of the grass had been crushed down flat. 'No…' She thought, following the new trail, stopping at a group of spiders swarming something.
Thinking swiftly, Xanna leaped onto a tree, climbed up to the first branch she could reach, then scooted herself carefully to the edge. 'No.' She thought again, seeing a few spiders finishing up on a cocoon.
When the spiders left the cocoons, Xanna leapt down to the ground. "Ow…" She uttered with a slight growl, quickly regaining what little composure she had to stand up straight. She inhaled deeply as she looked the cocoons, holding it in for a good moment before letting it out and walking up to one of the spider sackings. 'Please, please…' She hoped and prayed in her mind, closing her eyes as she slowly cut open the sack she was at, fearing the worst.
Another tear rolled down her cheek as she forced her head up and her eyes open. "No…" She said, her heart racing at the sight of her friend's mother's face. "God, no…" She repeated, her bottom lip beginning to quiver as she backed away from the cocoon. She didn't need to cut open the other two open after seeing what laid in the one she had.
Falling to her knees, Xanna began to sob again. "Gishezpak, I'm so sorry… I…I… Oh god, I'm so sorry…" She quietly choked out as she held herself for comfort. 'I promise that I'll save you, Gishezpak… Just wait for me…'
Xanna let out small grunts as she; carefully; dragged Binkadoo's body to the other three trolls. She'd been a little too disoriented by grief to carry him in her arms. "Now you can be-" She sniffled as she came closer to trolls. "-with your family, Mister Gizzy's dad." She sniffled again, almost wanting to cry for never catching any of their names. She forced them back, then gently sat Binkadoo's body up next to his wife. "Well…everyone except one." She said, wiping her nose at the sorrowful sight.
Xanna inhaled deeply once more to keep herself from shaking. Letting it out, she knelt to the ground and pray out of respect for the fallen trolls. 'I'm so sorry I couldn't save you.' She thought, clasping her hands tight to each other.
"You still can, if you hurry." Came a whisper.
"Hello?" Xanna asked, perking her head up, feeling a gentle breeze start up again. "Who was that?…" She asked no one in particular.
Suddenly, the ground began to shake; making Xanna fall onto her backside. She'd completely lost all train of thought and only waited in fear for the shaking to stop.
Unfortunately for her, the quacking world worsened and spiders slowly emerged from all around her.
"Spiders…" Xanna muttered, tightly clutching the ground. "Why does it always have to be…" She growled through gritted teeth, somehow managing to stand up straight and equip a dagger in each hand. "Spiders! !" She exclaimed with anger, slowly lifting her head up from the no longer shaking ground, her eyes landing on the giant spider she had bumped into earlier.
Dark yellow hurt filled eyes met dark beady black ones.
"Go ahead and attack me." Xanna spat to the spider. "But I'm not going down without a fight." She growled, getting into her battle stance. "So bring it."
The big red spider only stared at Xanna for a moment, not even blinking. The girl only replied to the stare with a growl, anxious about when the hell it would start attacking. "What? Change your mind!" She barked at it, about to make her way for it, stopping when some of the smaller spiders started to hiss aggressively at her. "Fight me!" She yelled, not liking having to stay still for what seemed to be forever.
Finally, the spider made a skittering sound. The next thing Xanna knew was that she was being shoved toward it by one of her little helpers. 'What? She wants me to kill her?' She thought. She quickly shrugged it off and raised a dagger when she was in front of the giant beast, pausing for a moment as she looked into its eyes again.
'This… She…' Xanna thought, lowering her dagger in shame. 'She doesn't want to fight… I don't know why, but I won't question it.'
"She wants to help." Said the whisper again. "Hurry."
Not wandering where the whisper had come from this time, Xanna quickly turned to the troll family. "I can…save them?" She queried, her eyes too dried out to start crying again.
The red spider lightly nudged Xanna to Gishezpak's family, urging her to act quickly before they were far too gone to be saved. She didn't hesitate or ask questions and began to carefully place them on some of the spiders around her. "Please, be careful." She told them, taking a deep breath before hopping onto a spider to her left.
The red spider made a noise at her. Xanna figured it meant that she would be her ride and began to climb onto one of her hairy legs up to her thorax. "Um… Okay, how are we gonna do this? Do I just-?" She was asking when the spider began to walk; jolting Xanna forward a bit and forcing her to grip onto the spider's fur. "Wh-Where're we going?"
After several long moments of silence; aside from the loud footsteps from the giant spider mount; Xanna saw a light. 'That must be the end of the forest!' She thought happily, her hurt starting to hurt from bliss. "Hurry!" She said, lightly tapping the side of the spider with her foot. "Maybe we can find someone that can help!"
Xanna was filled with so much joy as she finally escaped the dark forest. If she had had the energy for it, she would have started dancing gleefully. She was so happy to be free of where she was, she didn't even notice the disturbing looks and murmurs from some of the Shalassi Talon guards a little ways from where she and her spider army were. Even if she did notice, she wouldn't have cared one bit. She was too happy to be okay.
Now all she had to do was make Gishezpak's family okay.
Xanna's eyes then wandered to the troll bodies just next to her, biting her bottom lip as she began to worry again. "Are you sure you know where you're going?" She asked the red spider, receiving what seemed to be sarcastic skitters. "Well, I was just asking. I-" She was saying, jolting forward a bit again as the spider began to head in a new direction. "Ah! Okay, I'm not trying to sound pushy, but could you be a little more-" She was making a request when she was jolted forward yet again. 'Okay, now I think she's just toying with me.' She thought irritably.
With a sigh, Xanna held on a bit tighter to the spider's fur, being patiently quiet as the spider army followed an actual road; horrifying many passersby.
"Heh. How ya doin'?" She sheepishly, waving a nervously polite hand to them. "Uh, you guys mind telling' me where I am?" She asked, crawling up the spider's big backside to keep up with the strangers as they made their separate ways. "I'm lost!"
"You're in Terokkar! You know, Outlands!" The boy on to Xanna's far right replied, receiving a smack from the boy next to him. "Dude!" The boy muttered to him. "What? He replied innocently. "I just being polite. And she's cute!"
"Thanks!" Xanna said nonchalantly. "Do you know where I'm headed!"
"Shattrath!" The boy to the far right called back again, earning another smack. "Dude! !" The boy to the far left said. "What!" He replied innocently as they finally walked out of range to communicate with the elf girl.
"Terokkar?… Outlands?…" Xanna pondered to herself, sliding back down to the red spider's thorax. "Shattrath?…" She muttered, pursing her lips with uneasiness. She tried to coolly wave it off with her hand. "Pfft. I don't need to worry. That's a sanctuary." She said, placing her hands behind her head as she leaned back to relax. "…Right?"
Xanna stared blankly at what was in front of her for a moment. "…Yeah, I don't think you can fit through that." She told Terokkarantula. The great big spider skittered a scoff in reply, then made her way for the city's walls; making Xanna jolt again, of course.
"What the hell are you doing, Terry? !" Xanna exclaimed, grabbing onto the spider's fur again as she began to climb over the wall. It was nothing in stature compared to her. "Hmm… Good id-Hey!" Xanna said, catching some of the spiders doing what they shouldn't be doing. "You four can't climb the wall! Take the door like normal people!" She told them, knowing full well that they were far from "normal people".
With skittered sighs, the four spiders did as told and carried Gishezpak's family through the door.
"And you have to deal with these guys everyday?" Xanna asked her new friend "Terry". The spider nodded and skittered something in annoyance in reply. "Sorry." She chuckled, patting Terry gently on the head. "C'mon, I'm sure there's someone that can help just up there." She said, pointing to the upper part of the big city.
As Terry climbed to the upper city, the flight master screamed like a little girl and fainted at the sight of her. "Nunu! Nooo!" A bald man cried and ran to the draenei man's side. "Speak to me!"
"Nunu?…" Xanna quirked an eyebrow at the sight. "His name is, Nutral."
"How…creative?" The elf girl replied unsurely. She quickly just shook her head. "Please, are there any healers here? Ones that can help me…" She trailed off and pursed her lips with discomfort again. "Uh…bringing back…the dead?"
"Why would you ask-?" The bald man questioned as he cradled his friend, finally catching the sight of Xanna's eyes.
"Mordin?… Mordin, is that you? I thought I saw a-"
"Shut up." Emissary Mordin told his friend, making him stick out his arms. Once done with that, he took his turn to scream like a little girl and faint. "Dinny!" His friend exclaimed.
Xanna sighed with frustration and turned to find other people around her. "Please, anyone! Someone! Help me!" She pleaded, pointing to the spiders with Gishezpak's parents on them as they made their way back next to her. "Please! I know they can still be saved!" She cried out to them, clasping her hands together as she began to beg. "Someone help!"
"This is a sanctuary." A blonde haired blood elf man said to the crowd. "We have to help." He said, looking for the best healer amongst the group. Said healer was trying to prowl off in his cat form. "You!" He called to the druid. "Help these trolls!"
"Shit…" The druid muttered, morphing back into his normal tauren form. Slowly; and a bit nervously; he turned around, giving the blood elf a chuckle. "I'd love to, Lord Torvos, buuut…" He trailed off as he tried to think of something. "My…hand is broken!" He said, nodding and beaming, then quickly; and as painlessly as he could; breaking his wrist. "Ahhh… He whimpered, then displayed it. "See? Broken. Can't help."
"You still have one good hand, don't you?" Torvos smirked to the druid.
"…Dammit." The tauren muttered. As he healed his hand, he snorted with reluctance. "Why should we help a halfling?"
At this, Xanna snapped. Before anyone had a chance to blink; no less, comprehend what happened; she was right in front of the druid, holding him up in the air by his collar with what strength she had left. "Listen, buddy!" She snarled at him, her eyes filled with something close to a murderous intent. "I have had a LONG night! All I wanna do is go home and go to bed!" She snarled more. These trolls are the family members of my friend! WHOM is still in trouble! And if you do not help them, then, by God, I will cut of your tail! ! And NOT the one on your backside! You got me, pal!" She growled, shaking the tauren a little bit.
"Y-… Yes, ma'am…" The tauren whimpered, almost wetting himself in fear on the tiny elf.
"Good!" Xanna yelled, putting the tauren down. "Now get workin'!" She added, pointing the dead trolls carefully being placed on the ground by the spiders. With a frustrated sigh, she turned to "Torvos" and bowed. "I'm sorry for the outburst. I just-"
"No need for apologies, youngling. I can see that you care for them." The blood elf smiled, leaning down to whisper in Xanna's ear. "He also needed a good yelling anyway." He chuckled to her, making her do the same.
"Well…" Xanna chuckled. "I need to get going." She said, looking to the trolls. "They're safe here, right?" She asked, turning to Torvos with big sweet and worried eyes. The blood elf nodded and gave her a light pat on the back. "Yes. Go wherever it is you are needed."
"Thanks." The young elf replied, quickly turning sheepish. "Uh…how do I get to Stormwind from here?"
Torvos raised an eyebrow is question. "There is a portal just inside, but…" He trailed off as he looked to Terry. "I don't believe your friend will be able to fit."
"Is there another way?" Xanna asked, almost rushed.
"Fly to Hellfire, take the Dark Portal, go through the Swamp of Sorrows, then Deadwind Pass and Duskwood and you'll be there." The tauren said as he focused his energy on Binkadoo's body. "I'm gonna need some help over here." He said, quickly receiving many volunteers; obviously afraid of their tails getting cut off as well.
"Why do you wish to head there anyway? It's being attacked." Torvos told Xanna.
"Attacked? !" Xanna exclaimed, quickly running for Terry. "C'mon, Big Mama, we gotta go, go, go! !" She yelled, gracefully leaping from spider to spider and back onto Terry's thorax. "Thanks for the help!" She yelled as she and her spider army left for Stormwind. 'I won't let Gizzy's actions be in vain…'
Hope everyone enjoyed. I wish it was a tad bit more depressing, but I'll just work on that in editing. I also might add more to this chapter later. If I don't, then this is the end of the flashback. Finally. Lol.